Pan-lifter.



S. E. WARD. PAN LIFTER. APPLICATION FILED mm 2, 190a.

Patented June 1, 1909.

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SAMUEL E. WARD, OF ALLEN, NEBRASKA.

PAN-LIFTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1, 1909.

Application filed July 2, 1908. Serial No. 441,622.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, SAMUEL E. l/Vann, a citizen of the United States,residing at Allen, in the county of Dixon and State of Nebraska, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Pan-Lifters, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to pan litters, and has for one of its objects tosimplify and improve the construction and increase the efliciency andutility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to produce a device of this characterwherein simplicity of construction and utility is combined with strengthand durability.

Another object of the invention is to produce a device wherein the partsare so constructed and arranged as to mutually support and brace eachother.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in adevice of this character having an intermediate support or backbone andtwo members swinging upon the support and with pan engaging jaws at oneend and superimposed handles at the other side and a locking meansoperating to connect the handles.

The invention further consists in a device of this character having anintermediate support and with two members each formed from a singlepiece of wire bent into U-shape and with the sides coiled around thesupport intermediate their ends, and the free ends bent into panengaging hooks and with the sides of each wire member twisted togetherbetween the coils and terminal hooks, and a slidable lock-deviceengaging the wire members at the opposite side of the coils.

The invention further consists in certain novel features ofconstruction, as hereafter shown and described and specifically pointedout in the claim, and in the drawings is shown the preferred embodimentol' the invention, but it will be understood that changes within thescope of the appended claim may be made without departing from theprinciple of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

In the drawings :-Figure 1 is a side view with the backbone member insection on the line 22 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the improveddevice applied.

The improved device comprises an intermediate su port or backbone member10 of relativel y heavy wire and with enlargements 11-12 at the ends,the latter preferably in the form of eyes, as shown.

The main movable portions of the device are -formed from two pieces ofwire represented respectively at 13-14 and each bent into U shape, withthe sides coiled at 15-16 around the member 10, so that the wire membersare free to swing thereon. The terminals of the member 13 are bent intohooks or pan engaging aws 1718 while the terminals of the member 14 arebent into pan engaging hooks or jaws 19-20, the hooks 17 -18 engagingthe pan, represented at 21, at one side, and the hooks 1920 engaging thepan at the opposite side, as shown. The sides of the member 13 aretwisted around each other between the member 10 and the hooks 1718 andbent downwardly, as shown at 22, and the sides of the member 1a arelikewise twisted around each other between the member 10 and the hooks1920, as shown at 23, to strengthen and brace the members and are bentslightly downwardly from. the coils. The portions of the members 1314 atthe opposite side of the member 10 from the pan engaging portions, formthe handles, as at 25-26 by which the implement is operated, and aredesigned to be locked together by a sliding loop 27, as shown. Themember 14 extends beyond the member 13 at the handle end, as shown, sothat when the jaws are to be separated, the loop 27 may be moved uponthe member 14 beyond the member 13, as will be obvious.

With an im lenient thus constructed, when a pan or li e utensil is to belifted, the loop 27 is moved beyond the handle end 26 of the member 13and the handle ends separated, which correspondingly separates the jawor hooked ends and enables them to be placed over the rim of the pan orother utensil, and then when the handle ends are brought together again,the jaws or hooks will firmly grip the pan, as shown, and this grip maybe retained by slipping the loop 27 over the shorter member 13. The pancan then be lifted and carried any required distance and can be releasedby simply withdrawing the loop 27 and separating the members 18-14, asbefore.

Although both of the members 13 and 14 are movable relative to eachother, still, when in use, the hook ends of the member 13 are firstbrought into engagement with the of various sizes.

The wire of which the implement is constructed will preferably begalvanized, tinned or otherwise coated to prevent corrosion.

What is claimed is An implement of the character described comprising asupporting member, two members each formed of a single piece of materialbent intermediate its ends to form a handle portion, the sides of eachhandle portion being curved outwardly adjacent said supporting memberand coiled around the ends of the latter, the sides of one member uponthe side of said supporting member opposite the side upon which itshandle portion is disposed being bent to converge and brought togetherand twisted to strengthen the converging portions, said convergingportions lying in the same plane as the corresponding handle 30 portionand the converging portions at the point where twisted together beingdirected downwardly and outwardly in diverging re-' lation and againbent laterally with the extremities of the last mentioned bent portionsformed into downwardly directed pan engaging hooks, the sides of theother member upon the side of said supporting member opposite the sideupon which its handle portion is disposed being bent downwardly inconverging relation from said supporting memher and brought together andtwisted and then directed away from each other in substantially astraight line and in a substantially horizontal plane and again bentlater ally in a direction opposite to the last mentioned laterally bentportions of the other member with the last mentioned bent portions ofthe second mentioned member terminating in downwardly directed panengaging hooks, all of the pan engaging hooks being disposed upon thesame side of said supporting member with the hooks arranged to engagesubstantially four equidistant points on the pan, and means for lockingthe handle portions together.

In testimony whereof" I aflix my si nature, in presence of twowitnesses.

W. S. HART, C. E. WARNE.

